February 18, 2015

Comscore Releases January 2015 U.S. Desktop Search Engine Rankings

RESTON, VA, February 18, 2015 – Comscore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly Comscore qSearch™ analysis of the U.S. desktop search marketplace. Google Sites led the explicit core search market in January with 64.4 percent of search queries conducted.

U.S. Explicit Core Search
Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in January with 64.4 percent market share, followed by Microsoft Sites with 19.7 percent and Yahoo Sites with 13.0 percent (up 1.0 percentage point). Ask Network accounted for 1.8 percent of explicit core searches, followed by AOL, Inc. with 1.1 percent.

Comscore Explicit Core Search Share Report* (Desktop Only)
January 2015 vs. December 2014
Total U.S. – Desktop Home & Work Locations
Source: Comscore qSearch

*“Explicit Core Search” excludes contextually driven searches that do not reflect specific user intent to interact with the search results.

18.8 billion explicit core searches were conducted in January, with Google Sites ranking first with 12.1 billion. Microsoft Sites ranked second with 3.7 billion searches (up 1 percent), followed by Yahoo Sites with 2.4 billion (up 11 percent), Ask Network with 338 million and AOL, Inc. with 210 million.

Comscore Explicit Core Search Query Report (Desktop Only)
January 2015 vs. December 2014
Total U.S. – Desktop Home & Work Locations
Source: Comscore qSearch

“Powered By” Reporting
In January, 65.5 percent of searches carried organic search results from Google, while 30.9 percent of searches were powered by Bing (up 1.4 percentage points).

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